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I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) | Review
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Still Missing: Salles Returns with Survivors of the Dictatorship “The dictatorship’s mistakes was to torture but not kill,” former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro proudly claimed in a 2016 interview, referring to the military dictatorship which created a dystopic reality for...
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2025 January Screenwriters Lab: Lana Wilson, Diffan Sina Norman & Alexandra Qin Among Fellows
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A pair of filmmakers who we thought struck gold with their Sundance shorts last year (read our top ten short film best of fest piece) in Diffan Sina Norman and Alexandra Qin are among the 11 fellows selected from 3,380...
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Joy Division: Camille Razat, Elsa Zylberstein & Lyna Khoudri Topline Mounia Meddour’s Drama Romance
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After her break-out female empowerment portraits in the Cannes Un Certain Regard selected Papicha (2019) and Houria (2022), Franco-Algerian filmmaker Mounia Meddour is moving into WWII terrain with a currently untitled project loosely based on a play by Jean-Philippe Daguerre....
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2025 Berlinale: Jeanette Nordahl, Anna Muylaert, Amalia Ulman & Fernando Eimbcke Join Line-ups
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Days before we find out who’ll compete for the Golden Bear, we’ve got programmes such as Panorama and Berlinale Special that have been filled-up. Bong Joon Ho‘s Mickey 17 has been confirmed, Justin Kurzel‘s series The Narrow Road to the...
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Sexual Misorientation: Hamaguchi Prepping Paris-Shoot ‘Our Apprenticeship’
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Back in May we had learned that Ryusuke Hamaguchi was revisiting with a feature film project that would bring us to Paris and it looks like we can now pencil this in as his next feature. titled Our Apprenticeship, with...
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A Different Land: Renate Reinsve & Sebastian Stan Re-team for Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’
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A Different Man pairing of Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan will resurface once again for 2026 with Romanian master filmmaker Cristian Mungiu moving over to Norway for his next feature film. Titled Fjord, World of Reel pieced together via multiple...
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Snowed In: Quentin Dupieux Enlists Exarchopoulos, Leklou & Kiberlain for ‘L’Accident de piano’
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Quentin Dupieux had enlisted alumni Adèle Exarchopoulos and then add-ons Sandrine Kiberlain and Karim Leklou for L’Accident de piano (formerly L’Avant-dernière séance). As per usual, we won’t have the logline until it moves into a film fest premiere slot, but...
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Je danse le mia: How to Have Sex Actress to Topline Claire Denis’ ‘Le Cri Des Gardes’
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Mia McKenna-Bruce, the face of Molly Manning Walker’s Un Certain Regard section winning How to Have Sex will take over some big shoes in Riley Keough for the new Claire Denis project set to film in Senegal. With supporting players...
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2025 Sundance: Celine Song, Daniel Kaluuya, Kevin Macdonald & Elijah Wood Among Jury Folks
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Lots of Sundance alumni will be trekking back to Park City next week with the likes of Past Song’s Celine Song, Daniel Kaluuya, Kevin Macdonald and Elijah Wood all part of the juries in the multiple sections. Here are the...
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Interview: Nora El Hourch – HLM Pussy (Sisterhood)
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Selected for TIFF’s Platform section (Toronto’s only competition section), French-born filmmaker Nora El Hourch pulled from some of her own narrative for her high tempo feature debut. Known domestically as HLM Pussy and internationally as Sisterhood, El Hourch delves into...
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